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Erasmus' praise of medicine, combined with a famous manual on hygiene

AEGINETA, Paulus. Salubria de tuenda valitudine praecepta. Guilielmo Copo Basileiensi interprete ...
Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Encomium artis medicae.
Nuremberg, (colophon:) Johann Petrejus, February 1525. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Later vellum with a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold. [80] ll. Full description
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Collection of Latin fables from classical and Renaissance authors

AESOP, Desiderius ERASMUS, and others. Fabularum quae hoc libro continentur interpretes atque authores Sunt hi: Gulielmus Goudanus, Hadrianus Barlandus, Erasmus Roterodamus, Aulus Gellius, Angelus Pollitianus [!], Petrus Crinitus, Ioannes Antonius Cambanus [!], Plinius Secundus Novocomensis. Aesopi vita ex Max. Planude excerpta.
Strasbourg, [Johann Prüss, ca. 1516]. 4to. With woodcut title border. Modern half vellum, sprinkled paper sides. [35], [1 blank] ll. Full description
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Two major Catholic polemics addressing Eucharistic and Christological controversies

ALGERUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). De veritate corporis & sanguinis d[ominici in Eucharistia, cum refutatione diversaru[m] circa hoc haereseon, opus pium iuxta ac doctum ...
Cologne, [Jaspar von Gennep] Peter Quentel, August 1535.
With (bound before ad 1):
VIGILIUS. Opera ...
Including: CASSANDER, Georg. Commentarius de duabus in Christo naturis ...
Cologne, Arnold Birckman, 1555. 2 works in 1 volume, ad 1 in 2 parts. 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials, and a Quentels woodcut printers device at the end. Limp overlapping vellum with ties. 255 pp.; [16], 143, [1 blank]; 52 ll. Full description
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Early Erasmus edition of Arnobius, bound in a contemporary Cologne armorial binding

ARNOBIUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Arnobii aphri, vetusti pariter ac laudatissimi scriptoris in omneis palmos co[m]mentarii, iuxta pij atq[ue] eruditi. Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Commentarius in psalmum, quare fremuerunt gentes.
Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1522. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut frame on the title page, and 2 smaller woodcut frames on the first pages of the texts, and 5 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with armorial panel-stamps. Sewn on 4 supports, with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with remnants of 4 pairs of green closing ties, re-backed. [166], [36] ll. Full description
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Elegant compilation of poems and other texts on love and marriage
by Baudius and other classical scholars of the time

BAUDIUS, Dominicus and Petrus SCRIVERIUS (editor). Amores, edente Petro Scriverio, inscripti Th. Graswinckelio, equity.
Leiden, Joris Abrahamsz vander Marse for Franciscus Hegerus & Hackius, 1638. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces, each page has been ruled by hand in reddish brown ink. 19th-century gold-tooled dark blue-green morocco. [12], 518, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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Erasmus early translation of Basil, a theological recovery of the Church Fathers

CAESAREA, Basil of (SAINT BASIL, attributed) and Desiderius ERASMUS (translator). Opus argutum ac pium, de spiritu sancto ad amphilochium.
Paris, Chréstien Wechel and Jean Roigny, 1532. Small 8vo (9.5 x 14.9 cm). With Wechels woodcut printers device on the title page and the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Modern limp overlapping vellum. 124, [3 blank],[1] pp. Full description
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Rare edition of Chrysostom's letters and shorter works, compiled and edited by Erasmus

CHRYSOSTOM, John and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Aliquot opuscula ... Graeca, lectu dignissima, cu[m] praefatione Erasmi Roterodami, cuius studio sunt aedita.
(Colophon:) Basel, Froben Office, 1529. 4to. With Froben's printer's device on the title page and last leaf, and 10 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century blind-tooled vellum [8], 95, [1] pp. Full description
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First Erasmus edition of Curtius biography of Alexander the Great,
making Roman rhetoric available to Renaissance readers

CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus and Desiderius ERASMUS. De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum. Cum annotationibus Des. Erasmi Roterodami.
(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, June 1518. Folio. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Urs Graf, and 9 decorated woodcut initials. Modern quarter calf. [4], LXXXIX ll. Full description
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First Erasmus edition of the works of Saint Cyprian, an important work in the Humanistic rediscovery of the early Church Fathers

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius and Desiderus ERASMUS. Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus ...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1520. Folio. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page and on the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, numerous woodcut decorated initials by Ambrosius Holbein throughout, and some ornamental woodcut headpieces. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge and brass edge guards around the corners and on the bottom board edge near the spine, manuscript waste pastedowns, re-backed. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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Second Erasmus edition of Saint Cyprian’s works, with manuscript annotations

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius, and Desiderus ERASMUS Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus ...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1521. Folio. With a detailed woodcut border on the title page and the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf and with woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with brass catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge of the boards, lacking the clasps. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description
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